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KIOW · IOW

Iowa City Municipal Airport

41.63920°N

-91.54650°W

ARR / DAY

▼ 28.8%

DEP / DAY

▼ 16.5%

Iowa City Municipal Airport (KIOW/IOW) is a small general aviation airport located in Iowa City, IA, 26 mi south of Cedar Rapids. It features 2 runways with the longest being 5,002 feet. SkyMeter has observed roughly 13 arrivals and 16 departures per day on average over the last 7 days.

Safety incidents

Last 7 days · 0 total

NORMAL

Current weather

Latest METAR observation

8h ago

Temp

66°F

Wind

0 kts

0°

Visib

10+ km

Ceil

—

METAR KIOW 070852Z AUTO 00000KT 10SM CLR 19/18 A3012 RMK AO2 SLP193 T01940183 52010 $

Runways

2 installed

5,002 FT MAX

Runway intelligence

Which runway carries the operations, observed over the last 30 days

57% of ops

341 land · 355 TO

18% of ops

106 land · 111 TO

16% of ops

97 land · 80 TO

10% of ops

59 land · 44 TO

Runway 25 carries 57% of operations (341 landings, 355 takeoffs) over the last 30 days. The next most-used is 30 at 18%.

Approach quality

Per-runway unstable-approach, go-around, and long-rollout rates

25 341 landings

UA 13%

30 106 landings

UA 10%

07 97 landings

UA 13%

12 59 landings

UA 5%

Approaches to 25 show a 13% unstable-approach rate (46 UA events from 341 landings).Phase B will add wind-correlation: which crosswind band produces most UA events.

Traffic behavior

When the field is busy — hourly + weekday vs weekend

Daily avg

27.9

flights/day · 838 total

Busy hour (local)

3pm

also 4pm · 5pm

Day vs night

61%

06:00–20:00 local

Traffic concentrates around 3pm–5pm local, averaging 27.9 flights/day. Weekend volume runs 0.8× weekday (24.8 vs 30.5 daily).

Aircraft character

What's actually flying here — top types over the last 30 days

Activity is led by (33% of 625 flights). Top three types: , , .

Communications Frequencies

2026-06-11

Type	Freq (MHz)	Hours
CTAF	122.800	—
APCH	119.700	—
APCH	134.050	—
APCH	266.800	—
UNICOM	122.800	—
ASOS	128.075	—
CD/P	119.050	—
OTHER	119.050	—
IOWA CIT	122.300	—
OTHER	122.300	—
CEDAR RA	132.800	—
OTHER	132.800	—
CEDAR RA	328.400	—
OTHER	328.400	—

Airport operations

ARTCC:: ZAU
Mag var:: 1° W
Fuel:: 100LL

Hourly traffic

Avg movements per hour · local time · last 30 days

Pilot & community notes

2 comments from OurAirports — click to expand

david

07/18/2007

re: Alexis Park Inn

I've never been to the airport, but I remember Jay well from the aviation Usenet groups -- he seems like a good guy, and I'm glad to hear that the hotel is still working out well.

Crash7